Well, at least the Swedish film exorcist saw a lot of good films
Funny, I’ve never thought of Sweden as a narrow-minded nation
On the contrary, I thought it was populated by broad-minded people
I don’t know anything about the policy in Holland or Belgium concerning spaghetti westerns, but I remember some Kung fu movies were censored in the early seventies.
I know that Clint Eastwoods High Plains Drifter was first banned in 1973, and then cut by the swedish distr. company (C.I.C)
around 10 minutes. But when Essellte Video released it on video in the 80th it was uncut.
Today the swedish censors dont cut any films the last film that was cut was Casino by Martin Scorcese.
[quote=“Lindberg, post:6, topic:1431”]Had to check these titles at the filmcensors site, since I found it unlikely that all of them were banned.
It seems more than half of the films on this list were banned when first sent to the censors, but released later in cut versions.
Still, films that were completely banned include Blood Money, Mannaya, Blindman, Johnny Hamlet, and (for some reason) Long Live Your Death :P[/quote]
I expected something like that
Still it seems a bit bizarrre that anyone would ban a film like Jonny Hamlet
I can imagine that a censor’s alarm bell starts ringing when watching a film like Blindlman or Mannaja, but some of the others?
And how about films like Ulzana’s Raid, Soldier Blue or even The Wild Bunch ? You’re not going to tell me they were all banned too?
Seems to me the violence in those films is more graphic than in any spaghetti western
[quote=“scherpschutter, post:7, topic:1431”]And how about films like Ulzana’s Raid, Soldier Blue or even The Wild Bunch ? You’re not going to tell me they were all banned too?
Seems to me the violence in those films is more graphic than in any spaghetti western[/quote]
Not re Sweden so a little off topic.
Ulzana’s Raid, Soldier Blue and The Wild Bunch were cut by the U.K censor upon their initial cinema release here in the U.K, and the U.K dvd’s of Ulzana’s Raid and Soldier Blue are still censored here in the U.K.
[quote=“scherpschutter, post:7, topic:1431”]And how about films like Ulzana’s Raid, Soldier Blue or even The Wild Bunch ? You’re not going to tell me they were all banned too?
Seems to me the violence in those films is more graphic than in any spaghetti western[/quote]
I checked and these three films were released uncut.
I think in those days SWs had a reputation of just containing senseless violence and not having any artistic merits, even if they really weren’t that violent all the time.
[quote=“Dillinger, post:9, topic:1431”]I got one little question:
The thread is called banned for release 66-77.
Are they still banned? And if not, when did the ban lost its power?[/quote]
If they were to be shown in the cinema today they would probably be uncut.
In the 80s VHS releases were sometimes cut, but not by the censors, instead the distributors themselves cut their films, following certain guidelines I believe.
A well known film could therefore have different cuts in the theatrical release compared to the VHS release, it was a mess all this censoring.
Luckily (for the people frequenting the cinemas then) the situation in Denmark wasn’t as harsh. No censorship and in fact the original Django was promoted with the line “Totally forbidden in the other Scandinavian countries” … Those were the days…
